After a 100-day space odyssey that took her 42 million miles, Nefertiti — the
queen of Nasa’s Spidernaut corps and world’s most travelled arachnid — had
earned the right to put up her eight feet and enjoy the status of being the
only spider to have gone into space and return safely to Earth.

She circled the planet 1,584 times, survived a 17,000mph plunge through the
atmosphere to splash down in the Pacific Ocean and still seemed “in good
spirits” after being flown to the US to live out her days at the Smithsonian
Natural History Museum.